And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) ALL THE WIVES SHALL GIVE to their husbands honor, both to great and small.
As we’ve previously seen, the LORD’s (Jehovah’s) name is never mentioned in the book of Esther (when God’s people are in Babylon: the state of confusion). The verse above, Esther 1:20, is the first of five Acrostics (words spelled by successive letters beginning or ending words) that spell out the Devine names of God. In the first four, the letters YHVH (Jehovah) appear backward, forward, backward, and forward.
In the sentences in which each of the four appear, the first concerns the Queen, the next by the Queen, the third by Haman, and the last concerns Haman. In the two cases when the names are backward (disordered), the LORD is initiating the reversal of the rulings of those who don’t know Him. In the others, when the names are forward (rightly ordered), it is the LORD working, unknown to His people, in their favor.
In the final Acrostic the letters are EHYH, which means “I AM,” the name God uses of Himself (Exodus 3:14), when Moses asks “what shall I say unto them,” when the people ask, “What is his name?” It is the name by which He declares Himself always present, never leaving us, even when we are unaware, not forsaking us, but working to overrule the edicts of those seeking to destroy us (as were Pharaoh and Haman).
Exodus 3
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
10 Come now therefore, and I will send you unto Pharaoh, that you mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? [The LORD God says, “Ask not, ‘Who am I?’ but rather know who “I AM.”]
12 And he said, Certainly I will be with you; and this shall be a token unto you, that I have sent you: When you have brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain.
13 And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers has sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
14 And God said unto Moses, I Am That I Am: and he said, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, I Am has sent me unto you.
15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shall you say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited [paqad] you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
17 And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
18 And they shall hearken to your voice: and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and you shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us: and now let us go, we beseech you, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
19 And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
The first Acrostic is speaking of the mystery of Christ and the Church, and reversing what man reversed: not knowing God and not giving Him the honor due His name.
Ephesians 5
22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands [not to other men], as unto the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the savior of the body.
24 Therefore as the church is subject [giving a place of honor] unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands [and not to other men] in every thing.
25 Husbands, love [agaoao – give the word of God as He has given it] your wives, even as Christ also loved [agapao – giving this word of God] the church, and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word [of God],
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
28 So ought men to love [agapao – giving the good God has given us] their wives as their own bodies. He that loves [agapao – good leading, giving understanding] his wife loves [agapao – is teaching] himself.
29 For no man ever yet hated [miseld and lied to] his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherishes it, even as the LORD the church:
30 For we are members of his [ONE] body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.
32 This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
33 Nevertheless, let every one of you in particular so love [agapao – give himself to] his wife even as himself; and the wife [by this teaching] SEE that she reverence [phobea – fear the misleading of men other than] her husband.
Hebrews 13
1 Let brotherly love [Philadelphia] continue.
2 Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels [the messengers of God, through who he manifests His presence] unawares.
3 Remember them that are in bonds [bound to the LORD], as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
4 Marriage [being bound to the LORD] is honorable in all, and the [His] bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers [as Rueben, who defile the father’s bed, and those who with him are unfaithful] God will judge.
5 Let your conversation be without covetousness [which is the root of evil]; and be content with such things as you have: for he has said, I will never leave you, nor forsake you [even when you have forgotten Me].
6 So that we may boldly say, The LORD is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
7 Remember [honor] them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation.
8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.
9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established [rightly ordered, as in the Hebrew word kuwn] with grace [these free gifts from God]; not with meats [as those for which Esau sold His birthright], which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
Revelation 3
6 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David [referring us to Isaiah 22 and specifically verse 22], he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens;
8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue [and churches] of Satan [misleaders who put themselves in God’s place], which say they are Jews [Judah, the now corrupt crop of leaders], and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.
10 Because you have kept the word of my patience [long-suffered to give it as received], I also will keep you from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which you have, that no man take your crown.
12 Him that overcomes will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
13 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches.
The Greek word describing the “key” of David is kleis, a six times used word meaning “a key (as shutting a lock), literally or figuratively.” It’s only used twice outside the Book of Revelation. The first of these, Matthew 16:19 (the judgment that ends the old corrupt heaven and earth, and begins the new, as above), is the LORD speaking, understanding opened and shut by this key to the kingdom of heaven, in heaven and on earth.
The statement comes as Peter (Simon Barjonah – the first to come from the belly of hell, released by this key in the hand of the son of David) SEES the LORD and confesses he is the Father’s anointed son. The point here is again seeing the Father in the son, that comes after hearing “what the Spirit says” as the word of God manifesting His presence with us in His son.
Matthew 16
12 Then understood [suniemi – put {the elements of understanding} together] they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees [the misleaders in power in the churches and synagogues, whose false teaching shuts the ears and eyes of those following them].
13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi [those severed from Philadelphia], he asked his disciples, saying, “Whom do men say that I the Son of man Am?”
14 And they said, Some say that you are John the Baptist: some, Elijah; and others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
15 He says unto them, “But whom say you that I Am?”
16 And Simon Peter answered and said, You are the Christ [anointed], the Son of the living God.
17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed are you, Simon Barjona [son of Jonah: the sign of the end {the dove}, the confession that brings men out of the belly of hell into the kingdom of heaven, seeing the Father in the flesh speaking and working for the salvation of His children]: for flesh and blood has not revealed it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven [who only reveals, opens, what is shut].
18 And I say also unto you, That you are Peter, and upon this rock [seeing the Father’s anointed {Christos}, from where flows understanding from God] I will build my church; and the gates of hell [the open mouths of men that shut men therein] shall not prevail against it.
19 And I will give unto you the keys [kleis] of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
20 Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.
21 From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.
22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from you, LORD: this shall not be unto you.
23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get you behind me, Satan [whose ignorance and misleading will cause men to not hear or see Me]: you are an offence unto me: for you savor not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself [so the Father can manifest His presence in you], and take up his cross [long-suffering to bring many children to glory], and follow me.
25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.
26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
27 For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.
28 Truly I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom.
The other use of kleis (other than in Revelation) comes in Luke 11:52, the LORD there telling of what the key opens and closes, and who closed it.
Luke 11
40 You fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
41 But rather give alms [eleemosune – mercy {in judgment} and charity, giving the understanding God has given you] of such things as you have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love [agape – the charity of God, giving, opening, what is given] of God: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! for you love [agapao – give to keep] the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees [false teachers and false prophets among us], hypocrites! for you are as graves [that hold the dead in death] which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
45 Then answered one of the lawyers [who interpret and teach the law of God], and said unto him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.
46 And he said, Woe unto you also, you lawyers! for you lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe unto you! for you build the sepulchers [that hold in the understanding found] of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48 Truly you bear witness that you allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their sepulchers [that hold their understanding in hell and death].
49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:
50 That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;
51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah which perished between the altar and the temple: truly I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.
52 Woe unto you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key [kleis] of knowledge: you entered not in [the presence of God and the kingdom of heaven] yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered [by opposing and falsely accusing those in who the Father manifests His word and presence].
53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
When the LORD, in Revelation 3:10, speaks of here and now keeping us from the hour of “temptation” that has come upon the whole world, to “try” them that dwell upon the earth, the Greek words used are peirasmos and peirazo.
Here are these word’s definitions from the Strong’s Greek Dictionary:
Strong’s #3986: peirasmos (pronounced pi-ras-mos’) from 3985; a putting to proof (by experiment (of good), experience (of evil), solicitation, discipline or provocation); by implication, adversity:–temptation, X try.
Strong’s #3985: peirazo (pronounced pi-rad’-zo) from 3984 [peira – a test, i.e. attempt, experience]; to test (objectively), i.e. endeavor, scrutinize, entice, discipline:–assay, examine, go about, prove, tempt(-er), try.
In these words’ usages, we see what is tried, and in the experience (through testing) what is proven in the consistent repetition (true science), by which we are saved by accepting the reality therein found. The wicked, who are damned, are those, who, seeing the same reality, reject it and instead remain in the delusions they attempt to force upon all through false evidence (frowarding – known twisting and perverting of reality and truth, by lies and false accusation).
1 Corinthians 10
1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that you should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud [from where comes understanding], and all passed through the sea [the trial upon the whole world];
2 And were all baptized unto Moses [by the LORD unknown in Him working and speaking] in the cloud [giving God’s understanding] and in the sea [in the trial];
3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat [deep understanding that gives strength];
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ [the anointing, the LORD in Moses manifesting His presence in the anointing].
5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things [the misleading of those who put themselves in God’s place, opposing and resisting His good leading], as they also lusted.
7 Neither be you idolaters [following these men who put themselves in God’s place], as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
8 Neither let us commit fornication [this interaction with idols], as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
9 Neither let us tempt [ekpeirazo – continually test] Christ [even after the experiment continually proved Him], as some of them also tempted [peirazo – tested Him], and were destroyed of serpents [misleaders among them, in God’s place giving bad advice and deceiving them].
10 Neither murmur you, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
11 Now all these things happened unto them for examples [experiments, experiences that repeat]: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends [the end of the old corrupt and the beginning] of the world are come.
12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he stands take heed lest he fall.
13 There has no temptation [peirasmos – test] taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted [peirazo – tested] above that you are able; but will with the temptation [peirasmos – the test] also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.
14 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry [which is the escape from these men who oppose and deny the LORD among us, and put themselves in His place].
15 I speak as to wise men; judge you what I say.
16 The cup of blessing which we bless [this word God gives us], is it not the communion of the blood of Christ [the anointing – the Oil of God pour upon us, His children]? The bread which we break [this righty dividing of His whole word], is it not the communion [the common union – the ONE BODY] of the body of Christ?
17 For we being many are one bread [the same word], and ONE BODY: for we are all partakers of that one bread.
18 Behold Israel after the flesh: are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?
19 What say I then? that the idol is anything, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is anything?
20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles [those who don’t know God, even if they say they do, and call themselves by His name] sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils [the misleaders they follow], and not to God: and I would not that you should have fellowship with devils [misleader among us as venomous serpents].
21 You cannot drink the cup of the LORD, and the cup of devils: you cannot be partakers of the LORD’s table, and of the table of devils.
22 Do we provoke the LORD to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
24 Let no man seek his own, but every man another’s wealth [profit – as verse 33 below says, “Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.”].
25 Whatsoever is sold in the shambles [the churches and synagogues that house dead flesh], that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:
26 For the earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof.
27 If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and you be disposed to go; whatsoever [false doctrine] is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
28 But if any man say unto you, this is offered in sacrifice unto idols [saying you must believe what they have been taught by their misleaders], eat not for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof:
29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?
30 For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
31 Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.
32 Give none offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God:
33 Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Hebrews 2
10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings.
11 For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one [BODY]: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren,
12 Saying, I will declare your name unto my brethren [Philadelphia], in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto you.
13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God has given me [are from signs and wonders among His people].
14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil [the misleaders among us, serpents who put themselves in God’s place];
15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
16 For truly he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham.
17 Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
18 For in that he himself has suffered being tempted [peirazo], he is able to succour [rescue] them that are tempted [peirazo].
Hebrews 3
1 Wherefore, holy brethren [Philadelphia], partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who has built the house has more honor than the house.
4 For every house is built by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses truly was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost says, Today if you will hear his voice,
8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation [peirasmos] in the wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted [peirazo – tested] me, proved me [in the repeating result], and saw my works forty years.
10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways [remained ignorant even after seeing].
11 So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God [manifested in the flesh].
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;
15 While it is said, Today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom swore he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief [not believing the voice heard is the LORD manifesting His presence and calling His children to enter His kingdom].
The LORD uses the word peirazo, in John 8:6, where the religious adulterers who left God test Him, not to see and accept the result, but rather, as today, to find words they can froward (twist and pervert) into a false accusation. This chapter is the Father in and through Me speaking of these men’s, the children of those who killed the prophets, adultery.
John 8
1 Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
3 And the scribes and Pharisees [those always looking to accuse others of what they themselves are guilty] brought unto him a woman [who as their churches and synagogues are, with these men] taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst,
4 They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act.
5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest you?
6 This they said, tempting [peirazo] him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those your accusers? has no man condemned you?
11 She said, No man, LORD. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn you: go, and sin no more [with these men, who lead into temptation, and don’t deliver from evil].
12 Then spoke Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light [understanding and life] of the world: he that follows me shall not walk in darkness [ignorance and death], but shall have the light [understanding] of life.
13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, You bear record of yourself; your record is not true.
14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but you cannot tell whence I come [into sight by understanding], and whither I go [disappear in the ignorance taught by these adulterers].
15 You judge after the flesh; I judge no man.
16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.
18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me bears witness of me.
19 Then said they unto him, Where is your Father? Jesus answered, You neither know me, nor my Father: if you had known me, you should have known my Father also.
20 These words spoke Jesus in the treasury [referring us to Isaiah 22:15, speaking the treasures these men made disappear as they turned their holding place into sepulchers], as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go [into heaven, the place of full understanding], you cannot come [because your ever-open mouths are the great gulf {chasma} that can’t be crossed].
22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he says, Whither I go, you cannot come.
23 And he said unto them, You are from beneath [as seen when the waters were divided in the firmament, the exposition God called heaven, in Genesis 1:7 & 8]; I am from above [the waters, the word, above heaven]: you are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 I said therefore unto you, that you shall die in your sins: for if you believe not that I am he, you shall die in your sins.
25 Then said they unto him, Who are you? And Jesus says unto them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
27 They understood not that he spoke to them of the Father.
28 Then said Jesus unto them, When you have lifted up the Son of man [so all can SEE Him and be saved from the serpents among them whose venom is destroying them], then shall you know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself; but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things.
29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father has not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
30 As he spoke these words, many believed on him.
31 Then said Jesus to those Jews [leaders of God’s people] which believed on him, If you continue in my word, then are you my disciples indeed;
32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
33 They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest you, You shall be made free?
34 Jesus answered them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Whosoever commits sin is the servant of sin.
35 And the servant abides not in the house forever: but the Son abides ever.
36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed [leading many sons to glory, into ONE BODY – I and the children God has given me are from signs and wonders among His people].
37 I know that you are Abraham’s seed; but you seek to kill me [now keep Me dead in men’s taught ignorance], because my word has no place in you.
38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and you do that which you have seen with your father.
39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus says unto them, If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham.
40 But now you seek to kill me, a man that has told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
41 You do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, you would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand my speech? even because you cannot hear my word [and therefore will never SEE the Father in me].
44 You are of your father the devil [the misleader whose children you are], and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own [language, the root cause of all confusion]: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not.
46 Which of you convinces [convicts] me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 He that is of God hears [these word as they are] God’s words: you therefore hear them not, because you are not of God.
48 Then answered the Jews [the current corrupt crop of leaders], and said unto him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan [the idol worshippers calling Him an idol worshipper], and have a devil [the misleaders Jeroboam put in the temple, to keep people from going to meet God where He said he would meet them, who also made calves they put in God’s place and told the people they were God]?
49 Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honor my Father [have not gone up into his place, as did Reuben], and you do dishonor me [putting yourselves in my place].
50 And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeks and judges.
51 Truly, truly, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that you have a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and you sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.
53 Are you greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom make you yourself?
54 Jesus answered, If I honor [raise myself to glorify] myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father that honors me [raises His Glory in me, as He wills]; of whom you say, that he is your God:
55 Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to SEE my day: and he saw it, and was glad.
57 Then said the Jews unto him, You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?
58 Jesus said unto them, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.
59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself [here always, hidden only in the ignorance created by misleaders in power], and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.
There is much speculation about what the LORD wrote on the ground when confronting the adulterous leaders of God’s people. The LORD says His thoughts were of Isaiah 1:21, saying, “How is the faithful city become a harlot [zanah – adulterers]! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.”
Isaiah 1
15 And when you spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If you be willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become a harlot [zanah]! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Your silver is become dross, your wine mixed with water:
23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follow after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore says the LORD, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon you, and purely purge away your dross, and take away all your tin:
26 And I will restore your judges as at the first [before the fall], and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision [revelation – the uncovering of what is hoped for]. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, which have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision [the apocalypse – revelation, when this truth is uncovered], breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam [eternity carries] bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir [the wall of lies] uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate [of hell, in the battle at this appointed time {Armageddon}].
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest [to the protection of the upright].
9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool [the words of men beneath].
10 And you have numbered [enumerated – told] the houses of Jerusalem, and [with your own so-called “good” intention] the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall [of your own lies].
11 You made also a ditch [the graves of verse 16 below] between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you have not looked unto the maker thereof [the old words – the ancient of day, who is wisdom], neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12 And in that day did the LORD God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.
14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die [and be born again], says the LORD God of hosts.
15 Thus says the LORD God of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer [the place where these ancient treasures are held], even unto Shebna [what has grown, misleaders, when vigor, strength, faded without good shepherds], which is over the house, and say,
16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here [to house the dead – the prophets dead in your ignorance], as he that hews him out a sepulcher on high, and that graves a habitation for himself in a rock?
17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you [which is now uncovered].
18 He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your LORD’s house.
19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down.
20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim [who God raises up] the son of Hilkiah [whose inheritance is Jehovah – the living God in him raised]:
21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle [providence – what has been prepared from him], and I will commit your government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place [upon which hangs all the law and the prophets]; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons [from My treasury].
25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place [which the people trust and are misled] be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it.
Psalms 106
43 Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
45 And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto your holy name, and to triumph in your praise.
48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise you the LORD.
Psalms 107
1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endures forever.
2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
8 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
9 For he satisfies the longing soul, and fills the hungry soul with goodness.
10 Such as sit in darkness [ignorance] and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
11 Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the Most High:
12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labor; they fell down, and there was none to help.
13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
14 He [by His understanding] brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
16 For he has broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
17 Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
18 Their soul abhors all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saves them out of their distresses.
20 He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
23 They that go down to the sea in ships [are carried to the people by their words], that do business in great waters [preachers and teahcers];
24 These SEE the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep [understanding below the surface of His word]
25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up the waves thereof [the agitators in their pride made known].
26 They mount up to the heaven [saying they understand], they go down again to the depths [they say they are the revealers of the deep in His word]: their soul is melted because of trouble [caused by following their ignorant misleading into confusion and now delusion and insanity].
27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit’s end.
28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
29 He makes the storm [in the sea, among the people at large] a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
30 Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven [machowz – Shiloh and shalam – peace and reciprocal security by the teaching that flows from God].
31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
33 He turns rivers [that now flow the words of confusion into the sea] into a wilderness, and the water-springs [that should flow life] into dry ground [where nothing lives];
34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
35 He turns the wilderness into a standing water [of His good word], and dry ground into water-springs [of life].
36 And there he makes the hungry to dwell [and be fed], that they may prepare a city for habitation;
37 And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
38 He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffers not their cattle [flock] to decrease.
39 Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
40 He [through His prophets] pours contempt upon princes, and causes them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
41 Yet sets he the poor on high from affliction, and makes him families like a flock [His ONE BODY].
42 The righteous shall SEE it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth [so the LORD is heard, that the wise will then SEE Him].
43 Whoso is wise, and will observe [SEE] these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
